Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

In Western Ukraine, where the hamsters are relatively more plentiful, they have long been considered pests. There, families ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

This once-thriving mining town was mostly abandoned after a coal seam fire ignited beneath it in 1962 and continues to burn ...

An 11-foot-long oarfish was found dead afternoon on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, along the coast of Barangay Dalahican, San ...

Ryan Zhenqi Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, has received a prestigious Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) doctoral scholarship. The national award — one of ...

Lorenzo was a tropical storm in the North Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said ...

Villages in Western Alaska were hit by the remnants of a violent typhoon last week. Many survivors are unlikely to return ...

Struggling news outlets are more concerned with luring eyeballs than informing the public, and as social media posts become ...

The National Assessment considered 10 priority hazards (including temperature increases, drought, bushfires, storms, flooding and ocean warming) over historical (1850-1900), current (2011-2030), ...

The UN-GGIM-AP is one of five regional committees under the umbrella of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global ...